It's a super clean & simple design...I stamped and fussy cut the fox out...colored the white parts with my Inkssentials pen and then distressed the image with memento rich cocoa ink. I darkened the image with a black copic marker so that the outline would POP. He's on a glue dot and I finished up the card with a white stitched border..

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Make sure you pop over toThe Craft's Meow's blogto see all the previews by the design team! What would new release festivities be without a chance to win prizes? We'll draw one of you to win Fruity for Youfrom comments left on theFruity for Youpost onThe Craft's Meow blog. You'll have until 9:00 pm Pacific tonight to make the rounds and leave comments. The winner will be announced in tomorrow's post onThe Craft's Meowblog.

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I just knew I had the perfect paper to team up with the fun sentiment from Apple Pickin' Time!! I like how it makes the sentiment pop and really, I didn't think I needed any other embellies because of the fun paper and stitching:)

Make sure you pop over toThe Craft's Meow's blogto see all the previews by the design team! What would new release festivities be without a chance to win prizes? We'll draw one of you to win Apple Pickin' Timefrom comments left on theApple Pickin' Timepost onThe Craft's Meow blog. You'll have until 9:00 pm Pacific tonight to make the rounds and leave comments. The winner will be announced in tomorrow's post onThe Craft's Meowblog.

Make sure you pop over toThe Craft's Meow's blogto see all the previews by the design team! What would new release festivities be without a chance to win prizes? We'll draw one of you to win Happy Fallfrom comments left on theHappy Fallpost onThe Craft's Meow blog. You'll have until 9:00 pm Pacific tonight to make the rounds and leave comments. The winner will be announced in tomorrow's post onThe Craft's Meowblog.

This is a petite 4.25 x 4.25...perfect size for the Jenni Bowlin 4 inch papers that I used. The Craft's Meow stamps....Stamp Like a Dream...seriously...look at all that wonderful detail on Mr. Turkey...LOL.

Yup, mine is a smidge CAS...didn't embellie as much since the paper is so busy and my lovely orange thread is a wee bit brighter than I had anticipated {thinking it is like construction worker orange..yipes...that's bright}

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Although it might not look like it, I thought alot about this card...especially AFTER I initially cut through the bias stripe panel and realized that I didn't cut them so they would line up...I typically would have stitched all around each of those 3 panels but decided against it...it would have interrupted the flow of the bias so I settled with the smidges of zig zags in each of the 4 corners.

Here's a cose up of the Lily Bee alpha I used to complete the sentiment:

Banners...who can resist them? seriously.

All the supplies except for the PTI kraft base and the Lily Bee stickers are from the Fine and Dandy collection.

I was inspired by the MME sketch that closes, tonight...way to procrastinate Amy:)

The base is super old MME...Life Stories...I love it for all the Kraft goodness...If I don't like the pattern, I'll flip the paper upside down and BAM I gotta full on Kraft Base:)

Today's pattern is recipes...hence my title:

recipe of life:

savor

Do you have words that are chock full of impact for you? One of mine would be savor...to savor the moment....to savor the memories because time flies...to savor the small things in life.

Here's a close up of the layout:

The photo is by my boy and the model is my girl {what great teamwork, eh?!}.

I was talking to a former neighbor of mine and we were commenting on the fact of how quickly the kids are growing. My girl is a junior in high school this year and although I wasn't one of those momma's that cried when she put her kid on the school bus for the first day of kindergarten {okay, I did follow the bus to the school..} I can guarantee you that I will be an emotional wreck when she goes off to college.

Wednesday, September 21, 2011

This week at Jingle Belles we're going digital. We'd like you to create a card incorporating at least one digital stamp or element in your card design.

I've really stepped away from the digi-world....I haven't gotten into the fancy smancy programs to do digital designs and quite frankly I'm surprised I can even manage the ole digital watermarks on my projects..LOL. So when I saw the latest JB Challenge, I pondered what I was going to do...